Gary Saderup Celebrity Charcoals
Size: 20"W x 24"H
Description:
Name: Clint Eastwood
D.O.B: 13 May 1930
Your favorite stars of yesterday and today dramatically captured with charcoal
on canvas-textured background.
About: Like most superstars, Clint
Eastwood's success can be attributed to equal parts good fortune, tenacity, and
talent. Eastwood may have been too young to fight in World War II, but he
managed to miss out on action in Korea too. On leave as a G.I., his plane
crashed into the Pacific Ocean and steely-eyed Clint swam three miles to shore.
He later was made boot camp swimming instructor and missed out on action in
Korea (confined to base). Encouraged to try acting by two of his Army buddies,
David Janssen and Martin Milner, he landed a contract at Universal Studios in
1954, earning 75 USD a week playing bit parts in B-grade movies like Revenge of
the Creature (1955) and Tarantula (1955). He was dropped when some studio execs
decided his Adam's apple was too big. The determined Eastwood swallowed his
pride and, over the next few years, he dug swimming pools between playing bit
parts in movies and on TV. While visiting a friend at CBS, Eastwood was spotted
by a network exec who cast him as cattle driver Rowdy Yates in the long-running
western series "Rawhide" (1959). That, in turn, led to spaghetti stardom in a
string of Sergio Leone westerns, beginning with Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
("A Fistful of Dollars"). The rest is
history.
